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Designed as a comprehensive resource on spatial thinking, experimental pedagogy, and academic practices, this archive serves as a record for reference and critical analysis. 

More than a traditional institutional repository, it is envisioned as an "Archive of Ideas," structured to mirror the conceptual and intellectual framework of SEA. The platform captures specific engagements, explorations, and pedagogical reorientations, expressing the school's distinct set of practices constituted by its students and teachers. 

The collection encompasses intellectual articulations—from course books and objectives to studio briefs and lectures—alongside a  documentation of student work, field studies, and thesis projects. Through this structure, the archive navigates complex inquiries into typologies, ontologies, and genealogies, while exploring themes of environment, urbanisation, futures, and ethics. It serves as a space for rethinking geographies and histories of type, offering the school's co-learning experiments and its ongoing articulation of space and form.


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Autobiography of a Wada: Tracing old Nashik’s socio-cultural transformation    

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Samkit Racca, 2025


In the old city of Nashik, Wadas - traditional courtyard houses have long shaped the social and spatial fabric of the settlement. Once home to large joint families, they were organized around central chowks that encouraged shared domestic life. Over time, as family structures, occupations, and aspirations changed, these Wadas transformed, reflecting broader social and cultural shifts. This thesis studies how the spatial and cultural aspects of Nashik’s Wadas have changed over the past century. It examines how evolving family dynamics, social relationships, and everyday practices have influenced their physical and material form. The central question is: How has the Wada typology in the old city of Nashik transformed to accommodate social, cultural, and economic shifts?

Through the documentation of two Wadas using measured drawings, archival material, and oral narratives, the study traces changes in materiality, organization, and occupancy across generations. Interviews with residents, especially elder family members, reveal how memory, adaptation, and aspiration have shaped these dwellings. The research views the Wada not just as a building but as a living record of change, a repository of stories that mirror Nashik’s evolving social life. It shows how the Wadas continue to absorb and adapt to the changing ways people live and relate to space. The study also shows that while older generations remain rooted in these ancestral homes, younger members increasingly move away, leaving many Wadas partially occupied, underused, or adapted for new purposes such as storage or rental.

Read also under ‘Memory and Belonging’:


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Spatialities of everyday heritage



Memory and Belonging
Aashika Vijaykar, 2020

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Galalelya jaga ("गाळलेल्या जागा"): overlaps of memory and home


Memory and Belonging
Aditi Bhandari, 2024

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Architecture of a monument: Vasai fort


Memory and Belonging
Chinmay Kadwadkar, 2018

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Architecture and memory: remembering home in involuntary dislocation

Memory and Belonging
Dhruv Chavan, 2018

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On Sindhi refugees: making home in Jalgaon


Memory and Belonging
Khushboo Tejwani, 2024

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Retrofitted domesticities


Memory and Belonging
Nikunj Dedhia, 2020

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Architecture and healing: civil war inversion of public space Borella, Colombo

Memory and Belonging
Rutu Kelekar, 2018

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Spatiality of remembrance: encounters between the native and urban

Memory and Belonging
Tanishqa Rodrigues, 2020

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